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Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt : measuring celebrity through the ages. / Braun, Rebecca.
Emerging German-language novelists of the twenty-first century. ed. / Lyn Marven; Stuart Taberner. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2011. p. 75-88.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt
T2 - measuring celebrity through the ages
AU - Braun, Rebecca
N1 - CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for the volume, 2011. Published in paperback, 2013.
PY - 2011/10/3
Y1 - 2011/10/3
N2 - This article analyses the spectacular success of Daniel Kehlmann's novel, Die Vermessung der Welt (2005: Measuring the World, 2007). It argues that despite the novel's apparently learned subject matter - it follows the lives of two 19th-century scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss - it draws on markedly 21st century processes of celebrity, both in respect of how the characters are presented and in terms of textual strategiesdirected towards the reader.This close textual reading is put into the context of Daniel Kehlmann's own sudden celebrification as the novel topped the bestseller lists in Germany for 35 consecutive weeks and was subsequently translated into over 40 languages.
AB - This article analyses the spectacular success of Daniel Kehlmann's novel, Die Vermessung der Welt (2005: Measuring the World, 2007). It argues that despite the novel's apparently learned subject matter - it follows the lives of two 19th-century scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss - it draws on markedly 21st century processes of celebrity, both in respect of how the characters are presented and in terms of textual strategiesdirected towards the reader.This close textual reading is put into the context of Daniel Kehlmann's own sudden celebrification as the novel topped the bestseller lists in Germany for 35 consecutive weeks and was subsequently translated into over 40 languages.
KW - Celebrity
KW - daniel kehlmann
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781571134219
SP - 75
EP - 88
BT - Emerging German-language novelists of the twenty-first century
A2 - Marven, Lyn
A2 - Taberner, Stuart
PB - Camden House
CY - Rochester, N.Y.
ER -